romney's few. it's not. but some are elated that is what we're going to have to go to. >> the last of questions. it talks about new actors in the rise of china. you might also characterize it as the emergence of new competitors, new rivals, both in terms of economics and our. tom rowe in his last book china is even the most of its authoritarian as some. by contrast we're getting only 50 percent of the potential benefits from our first-rate democratic system. john brokaw might be possible for a chance to overtake the united states alone, but it is much less likely if china will ever managed to overtake the west in order. i would like to go to you on that and then open the sub. >> i have always thought that the discussion of u.s.-chinese relations amidst the fact that china is not just facing the united states, but the larger system which we have been talking about tonight. that larger system is huge, and it is -- it has liberal characteristics. it has realistic geopolitical characteristics because it is fille